One month remains, folks, to sign up for my PCT seminar that will take place in Silicon Valley, California, on October 16-18, 2018.
This will be a unique learning opportunity for practitioners and paralegals alike who wish to learn about the Patent Cooperation Treaty, or who wish to refresh their knowledge of the PCT, or who wish to learn how to use ePCT, or who wish to bring themselves up to date about PCT developments. Continue reading “One month remaining to sign up for PCT seminar in Silicon Valley”
I’ve learned that our listservs (email discussion groups) are broken.
Our listservs are hosted by a hosting company in Boulder, Colorado. The hosting company of course provides services to others besides us. I did some troubleshooting, and I see that the IP address from which the listserv emails get sent has gotten blacklisted by one of the spam blacklisting services.
The blacklisting service has good intentions, of course. The service tries to notice patterns of email sending so that spammers can be identified and blocked.
I’d guess that some new customer of the hosting company started sending spam.
Now the hosting company will have to figure out which new customer is sending the spam, and shut them down. And then the hosting company will have to ask the blacklisting service to re-evaluate the email traffic for the IP address. And eventually the IP address will be removed from the blacklist. And then our listservs will start working again.
Recently I mailed post cards to nearly all of the people in Silicon Valley who are admitted to practice before the USPTO. This was about 4000 post cards.
By now, about 400 of these post cards have been returned to sender as undeliverable. Ten percent!
For each of these mailing addresses, it means the practitioner’s address with the Office of Enrollment and Discipline is undeliverable. As I flip quickly through this stack of several hundred returned cards, I see names of very well known law firms and very well known high-tech companies.
So the point of this post is that if you did not receive one of these post cards, you might want to look in the the OED database to see if your mailing address with the OED is out of date.
If you are located outside of Silicon Valley and you know someone who is a registered practitioner in Silicon Valley, you might want to ask them if they did not receive the post card, in which case they might want to look in the OED database to see if they need to update their address.
I launched my new podcast server two days ago, and I immediately did what every person does nowadays when they launch a podcast server, which is to submit the “feed” to the well-established aggregators and directory services. These include iTunes, Google Play, TuneIn, and others. Continue reading “Listening to my podcasts on your Amazon Echo”
This past Saturday was a big day for DAS for US design filers and for US utility patent filers, in cases that claim priority from Chinese design and utility applications. The big development was USPTO “pulling the plug” on PDX with respect to the Chinese patent office (blog article on utility patents and blog article on design patents).
The previous “pulling the plug” for PDX was last November 2017 when USPTO pulled the plug on PDX for Japan (blog article).
I’ve started a podcast series about the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Thus far I have recorded three episodes. I’m guessing it will take about forty episodes to cover all of the things that I want to cover. I’m making these podcasts available free of charge. To make this work I have set up a podcast server which you can see here. Continue reading “A new podcast series about the Patent Cooperation Treaty”
Back in about 2010, I delivered a lecture series on basic patent practice in the US.
Of course the lectures are not up to date. But much of what I discussed in the lectures is basic stuff that is as true today as it was then. Maybe the lectures would be of some help to a new lawyer or new paralegal.
Back in about 2010, I delivered a lecture series on basic trademark practice in the US.
Of course the lectures are not up to date. But much of what I discussed in the lectures is basic stuff that is as true today as it was then. Maybe the lectures would be of some help to a new lawyer or new paralegal.
If your PCT clients sometimes pick ISA/KR (the Korean Intellectual Property Office or KIPO), then you might like to learn about a very handy new way to communicate with ISA/KR.
One month remains, folks, to sign up for my PCT seminar that will take place in Silicon Valley, California, on October 16-18, 2018.
